House debates

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Personal Explanations

3:12 pm

Photo of Barnaby JoyceBarnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday the member for Hunter put out a press release saying:

Barnaby Joyce changed the record of an answer he provided on 20 October 2014 on the implementation of his drought package.

This is incorrect, and I ask the member for Hunter to retract it. I have stated quite clearly I had no knowledge of the change and, once it did become known to me, I asked for it to be changed back. He is also looking for a smoking gun, apparently. He is digging around, so he has asked the department for an email between a Mr Craig Croker and a Mr Andrew Henderson. He has asked for it to be tabled, as a smoking gun. I table it. Why this is unusual is that—

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